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Show MORNING TELEGRAMS CONDENSED. o,?S8Vlsh- eomPany has assumed the entire Peruvian debt. Stanley last evening attended a banquet ban-quet in the lown hall, given by the Burgomaster of Brussels. A New York World man has just completed the task of going across the continent at a cost of 60 cents. The Russian grand duke Constantino has declared with the people aud tho czar is more worried than ever. Alight recently occured iu a Chicago church in which one preacher and his adherents were throwu out doors: Constance Kent, the handsome gir who killed her half brother twenty years ago, near London, has been pardoned. par-doned. Miss Liiev AVanyor, a plucky young woman of New York City, on Saturday publicly horsewhipped her father for ill treating her invalid mother. Ed. Brown, a Cheyenne cowboy, wanted to marry a school teacher. She refused and ho stood in front of a looking look-ing glass and blew out his brains. Lust night Charles Goorgo of New York was quarraling with his wife, when his mother-in-law, Mrs. Riley seized an axe and fractured his skull, inflicting a fatal injury. Tho Pope yesterday received 3.000 Italian pilgrims. He made a forcible speech in which he indicted the government. govern-ment. The audience cheered and shouted, "Long Lite tho l'opo!" John Rhodes, a well-known farmer living near Greencastle, shot and killed his uephew, William Rhodes, last evening even-ing during a quarrel. Tho uncle taunted the nephew about tho latter's crippled son, and the young man threatened threat-ened to shoot him. Rhodes then got his gun and fired. Tho killing is reported iu West Virginia, Vir-ginia, near Pigeon Creek last Friday, of Smith Baisden, John Baisden and William Baisden, three brothers, noted desperadoes. Deputy Sheriff Brewer and posse attempted 'to arrest them aud were tired noon. A battle ensued and the desperadoes were killed. A fire started in one of tho coal shafts at Spring Valley, 111., yesterday morning. morn-ing. Five men went down to subdue it. Iu a few minutes three of them were overcome by smoke and gas and suffocated. suffo-cated. Tho other two managed to get to the cage and were brought up. When tho unfortunate trio were taken out they were beyond human aid. All have large families. John Taylor of St. Louis, and Burke, a Pittsburg pugilist, fought to a finish with three:ouneo gloves for $100 a side, a purse of $250 and gate money, near Chicago yesterday. Daly knocked his antagonist out completely in ten rounds although fifteen pounds lighter. Daly is a game light-weight tighter, although not yet 21 years of age. Ho knocked Burko out with appareet ease. Sixteen-year-old Mary Stewart, of McKeesport, Pa., is under arrest, charged with poisoning her 4-year-old brother. Friday she made soup for dinner, of which all but herself partook heartily. Soon all were taken violently ill and the physician pronounced it arsenical ar-senical poisoning. Tho 4-year-old boy is dead and three others are seriously ill. , Mary asserts her innocence. . John H. Griffin of New York yesterday yester-day afternoon began a flirtation with some young women on the roof of 63 Mott street. They beckoned him over, and he went up stairs to 61 Molt street, but finding the women on tho adjoining roof, tried to climb across a picket fence over the shaft between the houses. The railing broke, and ho fell down the shaft six stories. He was instantly killed. Last month, Steve Jacobs, colored, was placed in jail atFayctteville, Tcnn., charged with arson." Lynching was threatened, but this was finally abandoned. aban-doned. Last week another barn was burned and the attention of tho fanners was thereby again directed to Jacobs. Early yesterday morning 100 man marched to the jail, and on the refusal of tho sheriff to open it, battered ill the doors. Jacobs was taken out and hanged to a tree. |